Mental Illnesses in the Middle Ages and their Reflection in the South Slavonic Hagiographic Literature

• Authors: Ekaterina Todorova

Abstracts

EN

The main points are related to the cultural-anthropological (Michel Foucault) and theological contextualization of diseases (Jean-Claude Larchet) and their treatment in the Middle Ages. Based on the South Slavonic hagiographic literature, the terms physician and healer are defined and specified. The study focuses on the mental disease (insanity), which according to the methodology of Larchet is three types: somatic nature of madness, the madness of demonic origin, and madness of spiritual origin. Also partly concerns the problem of God fools’ insanity. 

Keywords

EN

mental illness; demon-possessed; healer; treatment; saint

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Studia Ceranea
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 11
• Pages: 463-477

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Ekaterina Todorova

• Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Literature, Old Bulgarian Literature Department, Bulgaria

• https://orcid.org/0000000344683344

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/2084-140X.11.23

Biblioteka Nauki

2027715